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Social Media Spec Guide Dimensions for Content Designers

Every so often we update an infographic with the latest image dimensions for your Social Media sites. Here is the latest one on record we have. Which will probably change again in 6 months. But, at least for now, you will know all the size dimensions for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube. Enjoy!
Many thanks to the kind people over at Radious for updating this one for everyone.

 

Social-Media-Dimensions

The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet [INFOGRAPHIC]

This is the Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet to replace all others. Well, until social network decide to change their image allowances. BUT – this is a huge resource for any of you social media marketeers and designers.

It’s awfully nice to have a central place for image resizing, whether you need it fo Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google+. A real lifesaver so you don’t have to go through embedded searches just to create an image.

Many thanks to the folks at LunaMetrics for this infographic, and thanks to Susan Beebee for posting it. Yipppeee!

How to Find and Adjust your Social Media Privacy Settings Quickly

Granted, this isn’t anything ground-breaking or earth-shattering, but it is nice to know there is a site you can go to that finds the Privacy Settings on all your Social Media accounts so you can make any changes quickly. Sometimes the pages that contain the information on how to adjust your settings can be deeply embedded on a Social Media site and it take a good portion of time to find it.

With AdjustYourPrivacy.com, you can click on to any of the Social Media icons you use, and it will bring you right to that area.

Quick links to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube et al, will certainly help you just get their faster; especially if the situation arises when you have to do it fast because you’ve been compromised.

This is just another great shortcut tip that will help you as the Privacy issues surrounding Social Media just keep getting more pervasive in our lives whenever we are using social networking sites.

Anyone finding this useful to you?

Enjoy!

How many of your Twitter followers are fake?

And so it is upon us. Another 4 years later and the nation is in yet another frenzy over who will be our next President.

And who would have thought 8 years ago some of the biggest headlines would be about which President has more fake Twitter followers? Mashable states Obama has 13 million fake followers out of his 19 million followers, much more than Romney’s 900,000 followers of which 135,000 are fake.

Welcome to the New Media Age. Where you’re not only graded on your ability, but by your clout and Twitter follower count. Or fake ones, as it is in this case.

So how does one find their Twitter fakes?

There is a site call Fake Followers by StatusPeople which will integrate with your Twitter account to find your fake followers. Don’t think you have any? Well, let’s mosey on over to the site and see if you do.

First, go to the Fake Followers site, http://fakers.statuspeople.com

Put in your Twitter handle so they can use your data with their system.

We put in our @GeekGirlCamp account and found out the following, which was pretty good – only 2% were fake. Which is pretty good. But then, we’re not running for office.

 

So, this brings us to the real question; does these even matter at all?

I guess you could say that if you think Twitter is influential in determining the engagement, clout, authenticity and likability of a brand or person such as the President, then yes, I guess this does matter.

If you are from the other camp who believes this means nothing but some mumbo jumbo numbers based upon one social networking site known for multiple accounts and fake identities, then you are right, also.

Whatever the case, analytics and ways of measuring our social media scores and influence is vitally important for brands and this is only the beginning of measuring you or your brands influence.

 

What are your thoughts on this? How many fake followers do you have?

 

 

Help Vote in Geek Girl for Forbes Top 100 Websites for Women!

Forbes is back at finding the best online! Forbes has announced a call for nominations for their  2012 list of the Top 100 Websites For Women! Maybe you can help us get there?

The official lowdown from Forbes:

For the third consecutive year, the ForbesWoman team of editors, writers and producers will embark on a search of the far corners of the Web to uncover the best it has to offer women this year. To compile the 2012 list of the Top 100 Websites For Women, we want to know what you have bookmarked. Tell us where you go for insight, inspiration, to read the latest headlines or get an interesting perspective on a topic you care about.

Include your nominations in the comment section below. Please explain why the site should be on our radar, how you use it in your life and why it deserves to make the 2012 list of the best websites for women.

Just go to the link and leave a comment on why YOU think we should be nominated, based upon how we have possibly helped you, or maybe what we have done for others. Whether our scholarships for women were the reason, how we educate and empower women from ages 8-88 through our workshops, seminars, tech conferences, Geek Girl for Hire or how we support Women and Girls in Tech through our can-do attitude, how well we partner with other women’s groups, or maybe because we are just damn entertaining!

Please also consider nominating our partners, ChicCEO, in hopes they reclaim their 2011 win!

To learn more about Forbes on Women, consider following writer @Jenna_Goudreau, and subscribe to her on Facebook.

Thank you so much for all your support!


Introducing: Social Media Saturdays!

Do you get a migraine just looking at all these Social Media options here?

Of course you do, right?

Because Social Media has become more intrusive in our every day lives and more information than ever is bombarding you from all sides.

We know you need help, and we can help.

 

So ask yourself this:

  • Are you in need of some accelerated learning in Social Media for your business?
  • Is this chart above overwhelming and you want to just cut through it all and use Social Media without stressing out?
    Is Saturday the perfect day for you from your busy week?
  • Do you crave learning new things to put to action immediately for better engagement, more followers/fans, and more visibility for your business?

Then you need to come to this accelerated learning seminar:

5 WORKSHOPS – 1 DAY – 100% KNOWLEDGE AND FUN

Facebook – Twitter – Pinterest – LinkedIn – Google+ – Instagram – HootSuite – TweetDeck – foursquare – Yelp – YouTube and more

One-on-One help and lunch included. 9-3pm.
First come – first serve: limited to 25 people.

Check out our schedule HERE !

Any questions? We got answers! Call or email us